Problem with iPad created videos

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iPF Noob

My iPad -created videos won't play on my pc after emailing them to myself. They are in the .mov format and so I expect that QuickTime should play them, but I am getting the message "error -2048: Couldn't open the file IMG_055.MOV because it is not a file that QuickTime understands."

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iPF Novice

I wonder if the email..erm..program thing has had to convert it before sending it, or compressed it somehow, and thats messed it up? i'll send one to me from mine and see what happens.

Just tried and it worked fine, the quality was rubbish mind you, but it worked? so maybe the OP vid was corrupted. as suggested above try playing it with VLC? that sometimes plays stuff other players cant or wont.

Your quicktime file could be corrupt and may require a repair.
Error -2048 means "no movie found". It refers to the "movie atom" that describes the media data inside the file. Probably the moov atom is missing.

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iPF Noob

I should have mentioned that I tried three different times to email different cuts of the video without success. It plays fine on the iPad. I just tried VLC and that didn't work either. I will have to wait until I get back to work which is the only computer I can connect it to because that is the iTunes I used when I got it last month. Did I mention how much I hate iTunes? Anyway, when I get it hooked up, I will just copy it to my PC and see if it will play then. I think this is the first video that I've tried to get off the iPad to my main computer.

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